Another incident involving Maine high school sports. Another incident hushed up.

Shhhh. If we close ranks and don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen. If we take the video down, we can go about our business.

Tuesday night, Fryeburg Academy hosted Lake Region in a boys soccer regular-season finale. With just under 29 minutes to play in a 1-1 game, things turned ugly. On the video, you see a Fryeburg player bump a Lake Region player, which isn’t unusual in a soccer match. The bumped player followed the Fryeburg player down the field a little, kicking him. They trade kicks, and a second Fryeburg player enters the fray, shoving a Lake Region player to the ground with a shoulder check.

Other players from both teams rush to the scene, and you can see a Laker and a Raider wrestling each other to the ground. A spectator then stands up, blocking the camera’s view of most of the tussle. You see the fringes of what’s going on, bodies stepping back or being pushed out of whatever chain reaction is going off in the center of it all.

Coaches rush in, separating the teams. The refs on the field suspended play, which was the right call, given the circumstances.

Fryeburg Academy streamed the game on its YouTube channel, but then took the video down after the game.

So what happens now? Suspensions will be doled out, surely. Maybe a few of the adults in charge will publicly denounce what happened. The fight lasted seconds, but can echo if not dealt with.

That hasn’t happened yet. I reached out to the athletic directors of each school, John Gordon at Fryeburg Academy and Paul True at Lake Region, as well as head coaches of both teams, Lake Region’s Ryan Harlow and Bob Hodgman-Burns at Fryeburg. Surely at least one of them would go on the record to say it was something that shouldn’t happen and it is being addressed.

Nope. Closed ranks. One coach did call to say he could not comment. If we don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.

It did happen, though, and it could be a teaching moment. Instead, by keeping things in house, it becomes something mythic. It becomes bigger than what it is, teenage boys being foolish and not in control of their emotions. That’s certainly not a new phenomenon. Plenty of good kids have made poor choices. Doing things you regret is part of growing up. So is facing the consequences.

Thankfully, incidents like the one that happened between Lake Region and Fryeburg on Tuesday night are rare. Typically, when something happens at a high school game, it’s fans acting the fool, not the players or the coaches. In recent years, we’ve seen fans storm the court and bump basketball officials, fans start brawls in the stands at the Portland Expo, and angry parents rush toward wrestling mats to confront a coach.

Shenanigans in the field of play typically never advance past a couple shoves. Officials do an excellent job keeping a mild commotion from becoming a bona fide melee, and they did so in this instance.

How rare are fights in Maine high school sports? I had to jog my memory banks and go back 17 years to think of one. In January 2008, a fight broke out in a boys basketball game between Lawrence and Lewiston at Lawrence’s Folsom Gym.

It was near the end of the third quarter, with Lawrence holding a 10-point lead. Following back-to-back Lewiston technical fouls, a Lewiston player hit a Lawrence player, and all hell broke loose. This time, the game refs were a match and not a fire extinguisher, running off the court while things broke down. Both head coaches, as well as numerous players from each team, were suspended, and Lawrence was awarded the forfeit win.

A few months after that incident, and on the heels of a state championship hockey game between Biddeford and Lewiston that ended with numerous players in the penalty box and one from each team ejected, Dick Durost, then director of the Maine Principals’ Association, said neither that nor the fight at Lawrence was a sign that student-athletes are out of control.

It did draw a lot of attention, Durost said, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

If only leaders at Fryeburg and Lake Region looked at Tuesday’s incident the same way. These things are rare, but light is the best disinfectant. Bring attention to it, make it clear that there are repercussions to such nonsense, and maybe you nip the next incident in the bud.

Instead, we clam up and wish it goes away.